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We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure dimension affects voluntary turnover. Fitting duration models for workers' job-to-job moves that control for workplace fixed effects in a representative sample of large...
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reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms … employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure …
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In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to...
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analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job satisfaction and job mobility. We find that overeducation and … previous cross-section results and suggesting the presence of considerable unobserved heterogeneity which varies by gender …
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Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2013) we … examine the relationship between the dynamics of work-limiting disability and employment, hours of work, earnings and life …
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Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countriesincluding the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about theirprevalence, causes and consequences. This paper attempts to improve our understandingabout these issues by using...
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Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the … general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand … for temporary agency workers. The paper examines, first, whether the deregulation of temporary agency employment is …
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Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countries including the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes and consequences. This paper attempts to improve our understanding about these issues by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118518
This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular … employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated … innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive shock to temporary agency employment increases overall employment, but …
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Using a Discrete Choice Experiment we estimate the relative value attached by workers on core job attributes identified by previous qualitative research on the Aged Care workforce in Australia: salary (hourly); work hours; training/skill development; staffing numbers; processes for managing...
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